馴

馴

See also: 驯

馴 U+99B4, 馴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99B4 ← 馳 [U+99B3] CJK Unified Ideographs 馵 → [U+99B5]

Translingual

Han character

馴 (radical 187, 馬+3, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸火中中中 (SFLLL), four-corner 7230₀, composition ⿰馬川)

References

• KangXi: page 1434, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44595
• Dae Jaweon: page 1959, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4541, character 10
• Unihan data for U+99B4

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Chinese

trad.		馴
simp.		驯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (川) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
川	*kʰjon
釧	*kʰjons
巛	*kʰuːn
巡	*sɢljun
馴	*sɢljun
紃	*sɢljun, *ɢljun
甽	*kljuns, *kʷeːnʔ
順	*ɢljuns
訓	*qʰuns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xùn, xún

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˋ, ㄒㄩㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon⁴, ceon⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): sûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: xùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˋ
    • Wade–Giles: hsün⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiunn
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyn⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: xún
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˊ
    • Wade–Giles: hsün²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyun
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: seon⁴, ceon⁴
    • Yale: sèuhn, chèuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen⁴, tsoen⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên⁴, cên⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /sɵn²¹/, /t͡ʃʰɵn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sûn
    • Tâi-lô: sûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sun¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sun²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ziuɪn/▼

Rime
Character	馴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	詳遵切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/zʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/zjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zwin/
Li Rong	/ziuĕn/
Wang Li	/zĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xún

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sə.lu[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɢljun/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	馴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xún
Middle Chinese	‹ zwin ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.lu[n]/
English	docile; gradually
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	馴
Reading #	1/1
No.	1632
Phonetic component	川
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	旬
Old Chinese	/*sɢljun/

Definitions

馴

1. tame; docile: obedient
2. to tame
3. 77th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "compliance" (𝍒)

Compounds

桀敖不馴／桀敖不驯 桀驁不馴／桀骜不驯 (jié'àobùxùn) 桀驁難馴／桀骜难驯 植物馴化／植物驯化 溫馴／温驯 (wēnxùn) 雅馴／雅驯 馴伏／驯伏

馴化／驯化 (xùnhuà) 馴和／驯和 馴善／驯善 馴擾／驯扰 馴服／驯服 (xùnfú) 馴良／驯良 (xùnliáng)

馴行／驯行 馴象／驯象 馴順／驯顺 馴養／驯养 (xùnyǎng) 馴鴿／驯鸽 馴鹿／驯鹿 (xùnlù)

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Japanese

Kanji

馴

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: じゅん (jun)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun)
• Kun: なれる (nareru, 馴れる); ならす (narasu, 馴らす); したがう (shitagau, 馴う)

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Korean

Hanja

馴 • (sun, hun) (hangeul 순, 훈, revised sun, hun, McCune–Reischauer sun, hun, Yale swun, hwun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

馴: Hán Nôm readings: thuần, tuần

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References

• Nôm Foundation